May 2010
129 posts
Reading Secrets
sorrowsdaggerfall:
And then you realize that, oh, So many of them are about love. Love, love, love, It makes the world go round. Heartaches, heart breaks, Love, love, love. What an interesting world Of paradoxes and contradictions.
“A number cube, with faces numbered through , is to be rolled twice. What is the...”
– The Official SAT Question of the Day for May 27, 2010
Junxuan: Insecure? Just read this. →
Never let others justify your existence. Be strong. Only you can be who you are, so be yourself and enjoy it. Revel in the reality that everyone is different, including you.
Live for the moment. If you are agonizing over the past or where you’re headed, you are doomed to a lifetime of…
lovespell-:
Dr. Laura Schlesinger is a US radio personality who dispenses advice to people who call in to her radio show. Recently, she said that, as an observant Orthodox Jew, homosexuality is an abomination according to Leviticus 18:22, and cannot be condoned under any circumstance. The following is an open letter to Dr. Laura penned by a US resident, which was posted on the Internet. It’s...
Google Pac-Man consumed 4,819,352 hours of time →
(via twoyellowsequalred)
Bruce Nussbaum: Facebook's Culture Problem. →
jayparkinsonmd:
Facebook is wildly successful because its founder matched new social media technology to a deep Western cultural longing — the adolescent desire for connection to other adolescents in their own private space. There they can be free to design their personal identities without adult supervision. Think digital tree house. Generation Y accepted Facebook as a free gift and proceeded...
I don’t care if it has no duplex, but I’m so getting a networked, OS X compatible, monochrome laser printer at the next IT fair. I am close to tears (metaphorically) trying to get this stupid Canon piece of crap to print properly without smearing the last 3 cm of every page.
Meanwhile, I’m praying very hard for good weather and someone’s good mood tomorrow..
“Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to...”
– Sigmund Freud (via danielac) (via quote-book) (via delugeinapapercup) (via sorrowsdaggerfall)
“This focus on learning outcomes emphasizes that it is the quality of a CAS...”
– International Baccalaureate Organisation. Diploma Programme Creativity, action, service guide. Cardiff: International Baccalaureate, 2008. pg 14.
“I don’t feel like (I’m) dying, I feel (like I’m) dead.”
– Anonymous
I sat down to have lunch with my grandfather today. He passed me his bag of chilli and asked me to untie it.
It suddenly hit me that my grandparents are actually getting old..
I was going to write about food, shopping, advertising, consumerism, and life.. but here I am, winding down with iTunes Genius. It’s supposed to be a busy weekend, I should be frantically scrambling to understand calculus well enough to recite some of it on Monday, I should sleep early for tomorrow’s duty, I should do that English essay before Sunday night..
I should, I should, I...
“It may seem like I’m completely over you, and I may have tricked you into...”
– Six Billion Secrets (via sorrowsdaggerfall)
“Why praise only stars
when the black they sleep upon
allows them to shine?”
– (via summersolace, tylerknott) (via sorrowsdaggerfall)
All Souls, Oxford should continue to put genius to the test - Telegraph: (via givemesomethingtoread)
Since 1878, anyone with a First in their Oxford undergraduate Finals has been invited to sit the All Souls Prize Fellowship Examination at the end of September – a gruelling, three-day ritual, with six three-hour exams, one each morning and afternoon. Only those who have sat their Finals within...
They Get to Me →
givemesomethingtoread:
A young psycholinguist confesses her strong attraction to pronouns.
Jessica Love, a Ph.D. candidate in cognitive psychology, writes about psycholinguistics. O_O
“The enzymatic reactions that plants and bacteria use when they take up or form...”
– Testosterone, Carbon Isotopes, and Floyd Landis. In the Pipeline
This is the kind of stuff mass spectroscopy is capable of. Amazing, eh?
Mirrorshards: The Work That Must Be Done
In the factory that makes teddy bears, there are rosy-cheeked women who stuff the soft padding into the fur. They laugh and tell each other about their grandchildren.
In the factory that makes teddy bears, artists paint bright-patterned bow-ties and miniature jackets. They smile and have comradely contests to see who can make the most delightful mixture...
life is not a burette
thesecondstar:
just a bit of reflection actually, why must life make existentialists of us all? am i alive or do i just exist? do i want to just exist?
i feel so lousy too, so unskilled, unstellar, ungood, unperfect (everyone’s imperfect so that doesn’t count). i failed at an interview and i didn’t get through, i’m failing at a lot of things, not paying attention during lessons, not catching...
“It’s what makes food taste good. Traditional, intelligent and skilled used...”
– Anthony Bourdain (via Salt Epidemic: Why Americans, Chefs Love Excess Sodium)
jayparkinsonmd:
““Take what you need, leave your fair share.””
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Non-Profit Panera Restaurant: Pay What You Want At Pilot Location
Panera Bread Co. is asking customers at a new restaurant to pay what they want.
The national bakery and restaurant chain launched a new nonprofit store here this week that has the same menu as its other 1,400 locations. But the prices are a little different –...
Identities
I’m not sure whether I should feel insulted that a friend of a friend came to ask me something about hypothesis testing yesterday, then asked for my name, and then asked if I was from China.
“Uh, no, I’m Singaporean actually.. -.-“
After I’m done with IB, I’m going to measure and weigh the amount of paper that I’ve received from school - then add in a generous amount of paper for all the assessments submitted - and figure out (i) how many pieces of paper that is, (ii) how many trees died, and (iii) how much carbon is within that paper. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.